Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

In ancient cultures, solar eclipses were seen as apocalyptic prophecies, omens of the displeasure of the gods, periodic celestial coincidences, or some mixture of all three. The events stopped wars, ...

Over time and across cultures, spears generally started to become longer, thinner, and lighter. Although we didn’t have the word aerodynamics back then, we certainly understood that a shaft with such ...

Archaeologists in the Kingdom of Tonga have uncovered the remnants of an ancient city on the island of Tongatapu. The incredible discovery, announced in 2024, overturns the chronology of early Pacific ...

The release of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in 1949 heralded the return of the ancient world to the screen. It’s a movie filled with blood, desire, and a doomed romance, as the ...

Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes have long prompted questions about interspecies mating. Two studies shed light on when that occurred — and when ancient humans left Africa.

The discovery raises broader questions about the evolutionary pressures that drove the development of such specialized features in these ancient insects and why, despite their apparent success for ...

Stone tools reveal Southeast Asia led the world in advanced seafaring 40,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of ancient maritime technology.

Late 3rd-early 4th century AD Roman life-size marble statue of important magistrate. Academic report by Dr. Raffaele D’Amato; geological report by Dr. R.L. Bonewitz. Estimate: £180,000-£ ...

New evidence has led to an update of when an ancient ice sheet that used to cover large portions of North ... to date 76 samples from the ridge of debris that formed after the Cordilleran ice sheet ...